Originally Posted by
belfordrocks
That is a very bad way of looking at it, since the best value redemptions are not 25K mile awards in coach, but international premium cabin travel. 20K RDMs is 1/5th of a US to Europe round trip in business class, which often retails at ~$10K.
Well, yes, that's true. But it seems to me that I'll get better deals on mileage with SQ than even UA! Business class to Moscow DME on SIN was 136,000 miles. Same to DME was 180,000 on United via IAD...and it wasn't even business ALL THE WAY, only on 1 leg! I don't know about you, but that's a HUGE difference.
Furthermore, it's not supposed to be 136,000 on SQ....if you redeem online, you get a 15% discount on SQ, for whatever awesome reason. And economy tickets to DME are 34,000 on SQ with that online discount.
It just seems to be the better deal. I guess I shall have to say "do svidanya" to the HKG double-miles promo.